Arsenio Hall returns to late night with Arsenio! Live at Netflix Is A Joke: The Festival.
Special guests for the evening feature Arsenio with Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias, 85 South, Atsuko Okatsuka, & DJ CherishTheLuv
Tonight’s show also features a stand-up comedy performance from comedian Jack Assadourian Jr. Son of famous HaHa Comedy Club owner Jack Assadourian and a premier comedian headlining numerous marquee comedy clubs throughout the U.S., Jack Assadourian Jr. has been seen on the shows Epix Sex Life as well as Amazon Laugh After Dark and Make America Laugh Again. Jack was the 2019 finalist on the NBC show Stand Up. He created the NoHo Comedy Festival, which attracted some of the country’s most talented comedians. Assadourian guest-starred in movies like 50 Shades of Black and participated in popular podcasts like The Church of What’s Happening Now with Joey Diaz and About Last Night with Adam Ray. Now, the comedian known to many as Jack Jr. is sharing some of comedy’s funniest true stories in the form of his podcast entitled Comedy Club Confessions.
The Arsenio Hall Show – which first ran from 1989 until 1994 before being revived in 2013 – will tape a series of episodes from the Netflix is a Joke Festival in Los Angeles next week. Hall will host the show from the Roosevelt Theater. The show will also be broadcast on the Netflix YouTube channel.
The show was a breakout success when it launched, taking younger viewers away from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and introducing the audience’s canine-themed cheering in place of applause.
Netflix is a Joke Fest is an 11-day stand-up comedy festival backed by streaming giant Netflix, and will feature 130 comics with some of the biggest names in the industry in its inaugural lineup including Dave Chappelle, Seth Rogen, Chelsea Handler, Aziz Ansari, Bill Burr and Conan O’Brien. The L.A.-based event will take place across 25 venues.
Arsenio is hosting an exclusive, four-night-only run this week May 2nd through May 5th – airing only on Netflix Is A Joke’s YouTube channel.
